![]() ![]() Oh, and no, I'm not proud of using an emulator for Yakuza 2, but it's the reality of getting older games in Thailand. Yakuza games actually sorta hold a special place in my heart, flawed as they are (I like to overuse parenthesis). Tip for teachers going to Asia, Korea and Japan, great, Thailand, a paradise but a financial trap!) Most people suggest the 0+Kiwami route for a couple of reasons. I'd like to play the other three, but with no PS3, only obviously pirated copies and no PS3 emulator, I sadly won't be able to until I return to the states or pay horrid shipping I can't afford to import them here on my meager Thai teaching wage (good money in Thailand, exchanges to McD's manger wages back home. The Tokyo district, even in PS2 graphics, is so perfectly detailed it reminded me of nights out with friends, drinking Saki and hitting the Noraebangs, sleeping it off in a DVD room and going out again the next night. More than that, it made me very nostalgic for my time living in both Korea and Japan. I picked it up and made some Thai pirate $2 richer, popped it in a PC emulator and really, REALLY enjoyed it, though it tended to be a little more goofy. I saw it at Panthip plaza in a bag along with all the other copied shit they sell (if it's not a downloadable game, it's pretty tough to find legit copies of anything older than a year). I'm living in Thailand right now, but I spent two years in Korea and one year in Japan (teaching English). ![]() Then I didn't play Yakuza 2 until just this year. It got so many of the characteristics and tropes of Asian crime fiction right that I thought it was perhaps the most brilliant game ever and actually held up under a film critical eye, though the gameplay could be a drag at times. Yakuza came out right at the height of my Asian film phase, and I had heard and watched the short films that Miike directed for the game, which held up as legit short films. Actually, that led to other Asia films as well, like Wong Kar Wai in China and Park Wook Chan in Korea. Beat Takeshi, Miike and others were regularly in my VCR (I still had one because Hollywood video still rented them at the time, in fact, a lot of foreign flicks hadn't been converted yet) or DVD player. At the time I was in college and had recently discovered the Japanese film industry was a lot more than Kurosawa and Anime. So many things string into the first game of the series. Definitely got me interested in the future (serious) entries of the series. Story, however, I think 4 should suffice. I eventually went back, but I think the same should apply here. It kinda reminds me how I played a sequel to Assassin's Creed game too quickly, and just got tired of it because the core gameplay was pretty much the same. You should probably play one of whichever, then wait a few months before you play another Yakuza game. I can't imagine the combat to be any different from the third game besides maybe the main Yakuza dude having a larger moveset, though I'm not too sure about that since I've never played the retail version. But eventually, you'll learn some cheap tricks as well and you'll become so comfortable with it that you'll want to suplex everyone onto everything everywhere. The combat can get pretty stale quickly, and cheap even. There are 336 downloadable games out of the 4491 originally released for PlayStation 2.Never played a Yakuza game before, apart from the Yakuza 3 demo, and found Yakuza 4 to be pretty awesome. For HD remakes, see High-definition remasters for PlayStation consoles. Unlike PlayStation 2 Classics on the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 4 releases run at a higher resolution and some have Trophy support. This is a list of PlayStation 2 games later made available for purchase and download from the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 video game consoles. This article was last edited by Swordofneutrality ( talk | contribs) 6 seconds ago. ![]() ![]() Click on the link for template parameters to use. If you are the editor who added this template and you are actively editing, please be sure to replace this template with during the active editing session. If this article or section has not been edited in several days, please remove this template. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. This article or section is being created, or is in the process of extensive expansion or major restructuring. ![]()
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